Great, remind me of what CHR$() I shoiuld check, I will be glad to
chime in with the info and serial number of my unit.


On 4 September 2015 at 02:13, VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> And I thought I was being ignored. :-o
>
> I will have to dig out my M100 to confirm this.
>
> As far as I can see there are 2 differences that happened during Model 100 
> production:
> - update of the character set
> - update of the trig-table = the famous pi-error
>
> AFAIR, the M100 I have has a Serial number beginning with 4, placing the 
> production date in 1984. (Big Brother is watching us!) As far as I know, all 
> the M100 that the rest of you guys use, have serial numbers from 1983. Now 
> the question is: did the 2 changes (see above) occur simultaneous? That can 
> only be answered by testing every machine we have and checking production 
> dates. Like I proposed in 2013... OR check out the product number: mine is (I 
> just found the message, see below) 26-3801A, the A stamped. That might also 
> give an indication.
>
> But first, like I said, I will dig out my M100, M102s and confirm all this.
>
> Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN
> Sent: maandag 10 juni 2013 09:28
> To: Model 100 Discussion
> Subject: Re: [M100] M100 character set(s) ?
>
> Hello,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Vanden Bossche
>
>> I have a Model 100 with the same character set as all my
>> 102s and 200s. And it is produced in the US. I think it's
>> improbable they split export and domestic production that
>> strict.
>
> Excuse me. Like all other Model Ts, my model 100 was "custom
> manufactured in Japan for Tandy Corporation".
>
> Still, I checked yesterday, it has the model 200/102 character set.
>
> It has the product number 26-3801A (the A stamped) and a s/n that starts
> with a 40...
>
> Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus
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>
> Have some more PI ;-)
>
> 1 CLS:CLEAR:SCREEN,0
> 10 PRINT:L=0:GOSUB80:PRINT
> 20 P1=4*ATN(1)
> 22 PRINT" = 4*ATN(1) =";P1
> 24 L=80:GOSUB80
> 30 P2=2*ATN(3D13):PRINT
> 32 PRINT" = 2*ATN(3D13) =";P2
> 34 L=160:GOSUB80
> 40 PRINT@260,CHR$(136):L=261:GOSUB80
> 42 PRINT@261,;
> 50 A$=INPUT$(1)
> 52 END
> 80 R=INT(L/40):C=L-R*40:X=C*6:Y=R*8
> 82 LINE(X,Y+1)-(X+4,Y+1)
> 84 LINE(X+1,Y+2)-(X+1,Y+6)
> 86 LINE(X+3,Y+2)-(X+3,Y+5)
> 88 PSET(X+4,Y+6):REM print PI at L
> 90 RETURN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M100 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Comet
> Sent: zaterdag 15 augustus 2015 23:14
> To: Model 100 Discussion
> Subject: Re: [M100] math error
>
> Hi Ron, you wrote on Friday, August 14, 2015 4:20 AM:
> The system ROM of the Model 100 laptop has one error within its logarithm
> table.  Rather than "some early model 100s" being afflicted, my
> understanding is that the erroneous logarithm table is present in the system
> ROM of all Model 100 laptops regardless of manufacturing date.
>
> Apart from it being a trigonometric (not logarithmic) table in error, it
> might be that some "late model 100s" are unafflicted, given that it is known
> that Model 100s exist with a "cleaned up" character set based on the [early]
> Model 102/200, as noted by Jan Vanden Bossche.
> I am unaware if it has been confirmed/disproved whether such "late model"
> Model 100s universally have the ATN error.
>
> A relevant posting regarding variant models is excerpted below:
>
> From: Jan Vanden Bossche
> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 11:45 AM
> To: 'Model 100 Discussion'
> Subject: Re: [M100] M100 character set(s) ?
>
> I have a Model 100 with the same character set as all my 102s and 200s. And
> it is produced in the US. I think it's improbable they split export and
> domestic production that strict.
>
> It's far more than [the PI symbol].
>
> The difference between the early and the later characters set - the later
> being implemeted in the 200 and the 102 too - goes beyond the PI symbol. The
> whole character set is 'cleaned up'. The best way to see it is by running my
> DIGICS.BA program on an early M100 and a later one, or a 102, and compare
> the output.
>
> One thing, e.g., is that all accented characters are on the correct baseline
> in the second character set. They're all over the place in the first.
>
> Actually, I once asked that all people ran the PI-program, send me the
> output for the calculation of PI, and the result for chr$(136). That way we
> could tell:
> - if the calculating ROM error is associated with the early character set
> - what the serial number was when it occurred.
>
> DIGICS and PI are available in the Club100 Member Upload Library/Jan Vanden
> Bossche.
>
>
>
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